Hasta La Ideas

Voici la Sony NGP (Next Generation Portable), la nouvelle console de jeux portables PSP 2 dotée d’une surface tactile au dos en plus de l’écran OLED tactile de 5″, ainsi que d’un gyroscope avec accéléromètre identique au Playstation Move. Le tout sera disponible pour fin 2011.

Previously on Fubiz

• Sony OLED Display
• History of Gaming
• Playstation Movers

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This concrete house in Hiedaira, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, by Kyoto firm Thomas Daniell Studio, is located next door to the house and studio we published on Dezeen last week (see our earlier story here).

The entire building is made of exposed reinforced concrete, including the gabled roof, which has been treated to make it waterproof.

Built on a sloping piece of land, the house is a single storey at the front and expands into two stories at the rear.

Large windows in the bedroom and living room provide views of the surrounding landscape, which includes a national park.

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The following information is from the architects:

HOUSE IN HIEIDAIRA

This is a single-family house designed for a lush natural setting a new subdivision in the mountains above Kyoto.

The site slopes away to the north, facing onto a National Park, with a view across a forest toward Mt Hiei (the most sacred mountain in Japanese Buddhism).

In compliance with new building regulations that mandate orthogonal walls and gabled roofs, the house takes the form of a nagaya (traditional row house): a linear sequence of rooms contained in a long, narrow volume aligned perpendicular to the street.

The house expands in section to follow the slope: single-story at the street façade, expanding to two stories at the rear of the site.

This allows the gabled roof shape to define the interior spaces rather than simply sit on top of them. The bedrooms are half buried, whereas the living area is oriented toward the mountains.

The historical nagaya type is a response to the narrow, deep sites in congested inner-city Kyoto, with little or no space between buildings, but in this semi-rural location the lot has been divided in half longitudinally, with building and garden set parallel and having approximately the same width and footprint.

The rooms are arranged as a band running along the western edge of the site, enabling natural light penetration into each room.

The location of the building gives maximum separation from the neighbor to the east, and hence maximum sunlight in the garden area that remains.

The overall nagaya form remains as abstract as possible, made entirely from bare concrete.

The roof has no cladding or surface membrane (an invisible waterproofing compound has been applied to the exposed slab) and there are no projecting eaves, making the house volume akin to something sliced from a block of tofu.

There are no drains, downspouts, or gutters — or more precisely, the entire roof plane has been subtly shaped to become an enormous rainwater channel.

The roof perimeter slopes gently upwards, creating subtle parapets that prevent water from falling down the long walls, channeling it all to the building’s north and south ends where it may fall freely to the ground.

Architect: Thomas Daniell (assistants: Fumihiko Nakamura, Mike Heighway)

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Contractor: Shimizu Corporation
Location: Hieidaira, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

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Program: Single family house (2 adults, 2 children)
Area: 136m2 (two stories)

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Construction: September 2008-May 2009
Structure: reinforced concrete

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House in Hieidaira by Tato Architects	Himeji Observatory House by KINO architects	A House Awaiting Death by EASTERN Design Office

A few years ago, I purchased a binder of old matchbox labels at a local flea market. There were around 80 labels—enough to ignite an interest in searching for more to add to my collection. Ebay was the logical option, but I did not expect to find an amazing haul of literally hundreds of labels! I placed a low bid, certain that I would have lots of competition… but it went unnoticed and I was victorious. When the stash arrived, there were so very many labels that I didn’t know what to do with it all and have been saving these piles for a special project.

Inspired by these small labels, I put an open call for submissions for readers to reinterpret the messages and aesthetics of the old labels but with a modern twist. The response was terrific a there are four pages of reader submissions published in the new Issue #8. (I’ll be creating a flickr pool so that you can see all the submisions.) In tandem with the reader artwork, I thought it would be fun to include an actual authentic label in each subscriber’s magazine. So I decided to part with the collection of labels and disperse them among my readers as a thank you for your fine support of UPPERCASE magazine.

Thank you to the people at Printcrafters for manually inserting each label on the first page of the magazine! We had a nice surprise, too—there were actually hundreds more labels that the ebay listing had advertised and therefore many more copies of the magazine have the special inclusion than I initially anticipated. (But if you’re not a subscriber yet, I recommend starting yours quickly to ensure you get a label.)

I’ve commemorated my former collection by scanning some of the best examples and posting them to a flickr set. I’ve saved a few for an exhibition that opens this Thursday, but the majority of the labels that you see on flickr are off to subscribers around the world!

And if an authentic label isn’t enough of a goodie, each magazine has a letterpress insert as well! (see my previous post.)

Enjoy!

Here’s another project by Slovakian designer Peter Jakubik (see his Hobby Panton Chair in yesterday’s story), this time a cabinet with a chalkboard surface.

The Primary Cabinet is a piece of furniture for children and provides users with the ability to alter its appearance as and when they desire.

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Here’s a tiny bit of text from the designer:

Primary Cabinet – Draw own design

A storage cabinet created by young European designer. Peter Jakubik seeks an inspiration in the trend of “open source” with the possibility of endless variations of the final product. An Appearance of the product can user set easily as changing colour of the monitor background in your netbook.

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Stuff by Marina Ralph	2440×1220, Saw, Assemble by Pål Rodenius	Hobby Panton chair by Peter Jakubik

Badass LEGO Guns, a book by Martin Hüdepohl